Sunday, January 10, 2010

The Cold is about over - reading a very good book

This morning it was -4° and I think that is the last of the abnormal cold! Hallelujah! All next week is going to be nice, nothing unusually warm but around 43°.

I started a highly recommended book, 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'. I am almost finished and have enjoyed it tremendously. When I saw it was a collection of just letters between a group of people, I thought it couldn't possible hold my attention............wrong. It is a delightful book.

I will start another hat for our KC granddaughter sometime today. Surely I will move along much faster after doing two and won't be ripping out anything.

We managed to save all the eggs from freezing yesterday by collecting them 3 times.

I had DH hang a suet feeder outside the kitchen window hoping to attract a few different species for enjoying and photographing.

I didn't get started on the seed spreadsheet.....see how I procrastinate; not a good quality.

Later.............

I am happy to report I got all 60 of the different seeds entered on Excel....there are lots more out in the milk parlor that I will do later when it gets past 10° outside. It went very smoothly.

Speaking of bird suet (and I was earlier) I decided I would make us a suet cake (not really, but kind of). I got the recipe off the cereal bag several years ago. I think I like it better than DH but I made it anyway:

I just use white corn syrup. I think you could use any syrup you liked. Let me warn you they are addictive. I tell myself they are healthy: oats, peanut butter, raisins, sesame seeds and coconut!I try not to think of the calories.